The cast of 'Wagon Train' during the show's later seasons.
One of the biggest names in the long-lost golden age of horse opera television, the black-and-white Wagon Train is a noteworthy series for a few reasons. For starters, the show's engaging anthology-like commitment to exploring new characters in each episode was a draw that kept the program — which originally aired on NBC before jumping to ABC in its final years — fresh for eight seasons. It also just happens to be a series that helped inspire the original Star Trek.
Wagon Train — which was often syndicated as Major Adams, Trailmaster, or simply Trailmaster — ran on like this for its first three seasons. In fact, it continued as regularly scheduled in Season 4 as well, until midway through shooting, Ward Bond suffered a fatal heart attack on November 5, 1960. Having shot 22 episodes of the 38-episode fourth season, with"The Ben Pearson Story" being Bond's final Wagon Train performance, the show was forced to go on.
Posts 'Wagon Train' Carried On with a New Lead and Plenty More Material to Work With Close After Ward Bond's last episode,"The Ben Pearson Story," was released posthumously in February 1961, it took Wagon Train three more episodes to introduce their next wagon boss. In"The Christopher Hale Story," actor John McIntire was brought on board as the new trailmaster, Chris Hale, who leads the annual expedition through the end of the series.
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